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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Inside Disney Streaming Services, the “special forces of the streaming industry”, which came out of a BAMTech acquisition and powers ESPN+ and upcoming Disney+ — It's early September, just two months before the Nov. 12 go-live date for Disney Plus.
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@jank0 and Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal:
Disney bans Netflix ads on most of its TV networks; it had initially issued a blanket ban on ads from any streamers, but reversed course for all but Netflix — Entertainment giants are set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to promote new streaming services
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Deadspin:
Documents and interviews show TheMaven's plans for Sports Illustrated: building “team communities”, or content farms, run by third parties using low-paid labor — Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven …
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Defense One:
A Customs and Border Protection agent repeatedly asked a Defense One journalist, “You write propaganda, right?” during re-entry screening at Dulles airport — Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.
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Washington Post, @josephfcox, @deftechpat, @saletan, @prchovanec, @stephenfry, Boing Boing, @marcusreports, @heidilifeldman, @cahnemily, @jennamc_laugh, @enjus, @bayouowl, @timothypmurphy, @bruno_j_navarro, @mikesisak, @metromanto, @courtneyr, @sally_ayhan, @loriamontgomery, @davidcloudlat, @coreypein, @mradamtaylor, @verambergen, @lexialex, @spytalker, @katiebowill, @libbycwatson, @seamushughes, @haleaziz, @davidmackau, @scottbix, @digiphile, Fox News, The Daily Beast and The Hill
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A review of results for grantees of the Community Listening and Engagement Fund finds nearly all outlets reported more engagement, most didn't see more revenue — “Newsrooms generally reported increased levels of engagement and higher-quality conversations with audiences.
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Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
Microsoft: Iran-linked group attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign, journalists covering global politics, more — Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust — Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity …
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New York Times, @alexstamos, @nicoleperlroth, Wired, @davidjoachim, Reuters, @jseldin, The Daily Caller, CNET, The Register, Ars Technica, Financial Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Hill, Politico, Engadget, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, New York Post, The Verge, The Week and NBC News, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Supermarket giant Aldi will no longer sell newspapers or magazines in its UK stores; in the US, Kroger will stop carrying free papers and magazines October 15 — You can still get a wine advent calendar at an Aldi store in the U.K., but you can't buy a newspaper to go along with it.
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@dskok, @spj_tweets, @niemanfdn, @dleonhardt, @jbenton, Press Gazette, City Pulse, @samanthadunn, @mareevs and @spj_tweets
Dawn Chmielewski / Forbes:
In the aftermath of her battle for control of ViacomCBS, Shari Redstone talks about her relationship with her father, emerging media, and her attitude to risk — For nearly two decades, Sumner Redstone lorded over the media juggernaut he created from the corner of the 52nd floor of Viacom's headquarters …
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@forbes, @suecostello, @richlightshed, @waltmossberg and @lauramandaro
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
Profile of Rachel Maddow, as she publishes her second book, Blowout, and as her MSNBC show draws a strong audience, riveted by presidential drama — How the MSNBC host staked her show on Trump — and won the largest and most obsessive audience of her career. — Rachel Maddow was trying to get to work.
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@nottahmit, @nytmag, @megansmolenyak, @daveahopkins, @beeinthebreeze, @peterhimler, @bstarknemon, @mlcalderone, @jwelte, @jeremymbarr, @jayrosen_nyu, @niallstanage, @annalipin and @nytimes
Mari Cohen / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Chicago's news media scene, as upstart and legacy outlets experiment with collaboration for survival, after a difficult 2017 and 2018 — In June 2018, when the Chicago Tribune packed up and left its famous Tribune Tower newsroom, it seemed like an obvious symbol of local journalism's decline.
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@cjr, @cjr, @kathyim2, @propublica, @chidocumenters, @torresrandres and @meha
Privacy International:
Facebook, Google, and Twitter take a fragmentary approach to political ad transparency with heightened transparency in 35, 30, 32 countries, respectively — An analysis of what Facebook, Google, and Twitter have done to provide users with political ad transparency as of September 2019.
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@privacyint, @chrisroper, @rasmus_kleis and Adweek
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bloomberg Law retracts Sept. 3 story on a Trump admin staffer accused of anti-Semitic Facebook posts, issues apology citing failure to meet editorial standards — Moments after Bloomberg Law's Sept. 3 story on Labor Department appointee Leif Olson hit the Internet, its retraction-worthy flaws …
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@davidfolkenflik, @ryanchittum, @tedfrank, @erikwemple, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Reason
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